Today’s guest article is written by Forex day trader, Thomas Grow. Thomas is a staff writer for ForexTraders.com and certainly has some interesting things to share.
Life has been pretty rough for many of us, these last few years. Personally, in a very short amount of time, I’ve managed to lose my job, my house, my [...]
Category Archives: Life Lessons
Learn Life From Your Losses
Easy and effective ways to determine how much home you can afford
One of the principal questions that most of the prospective homebuyers have is ‘how much house can I afford?’ in reality. It is a fact that housing prices are low in 2010. But, it is also true that thousands of homeowners are losing their cherished homes to foreclosure. That is why it is necessary to [...]
12 Steps to Prepare Your Home for Sale
First impressions are very important to the prospective home buyer, so it’s important to put yourself in their shoes and look at your home as someone else would see it. Preparing a home for sale properly can make all the difference as to how fast your house sells.
First observations
All too often we are so used to [...]
The $32,000,000 Travelers Check
This past weekend I went shopping for a bunch of things, one of which was a pair of shoes. The sales person rang up my credit card but apparently hit the wrong button. The register read my card number as the amount of a travelers check. The register read that the store owed me change [...]
Do the Clothes make the Man, or the Man makes the Clothes?
One thing I didn’t expect at this new job was the dress code. Even though it’s business casual, it is more “wear whatever you’d like besides sweats.” I think it gets explained away because the people there are “marketing people”. Now, I am totally cool with this. I like wearing jeans most days. However, those [...]
Feeling Guilty about Overtime
The new job is going well I feel. It’s been less than three weeks and already I am immersed in the marketing field (something I swore I had little interest in when I was at Butler University — Go Dawgs!). No offense to my previous jobs, but I feel like I am doing challenging and [...]
Why You Should Save for Your Kids’ College Education
Today MD from Studenomics and I are debating a hot button personal finance topic: Should you pay for your kids’ college education. He takes the stand that you shouldn’t while I am stepping up to the plate for those that believe you should. Be sure to check out his article HERE and let us know [...]
3 Plutus Award Nominations, 2 Jobs Quit, 1 New Career
What a week this has been. Since the blogger happy hour last Thursday, my life has gone in all sorts of weird directions. Lots to tell and it all ties into personal finance. Things get better as you scroll down, so I hope you pick up on my excitement.
Plutus Awards
First, and most importantly, I want [...]
What the Movies Show Us about Pay Day Loans
By now most of you know us bloggers opinions on pay day loans and check cashing places. But to be honest, I have never walked into an Ace Check Cashing location. The closest I have been to a pay day loan place is in some of the movies I have seen recently. Its funny though, [...]
Six Reasons to Work for a Non-Proft Organization
This is a guest article by Flexo from Consumerism Commentary. Flexo is currently on a ten-day, ten-venue tour.
“It ain’t the money.”
I started my career out of college working for a non-profit organization involved with the arts. Yes, after graduation, I took myself and my thousands of dollars of student loan debt and walked away, at [...]
Music and Life
Jumping off of the idea that was discussed yesterday about the new website Untemplater.com, I wanted to further share with you what I believe to be their guiding principles. The video below talks about the life that most of us lead.
Music metaphor not withstanding, it seems we rarely dance our way through life. I know [...]
**News Flash** – Alpha Male Clips Coupons – Has Frustrating Shopping Experience
I am an alpha male. I am a bit of a jock and have way too much testosterone in me. If I weren’t too cool to take the Myers Briggs I am certain I would come out as a D-B-A-G. So when I went to the grocery store for the first time to use coupons [...]
A Lesson From Israel – Using Our Natural (Personal) Resources
As most of my readers know, I returned from a trip to Israel last month. There were several things that were eye-opening there, but one thing in particular intrigued me, and that was the use of natural resources across the entire country. Everywhere I looked, and I mean everywhere, there were solar water heaters on [...]